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13 unusual facts about Malvern


Audrey Stubbart

Following his death, she and her mother moved along with her siblings to her uncle's house nearby and then, on his death, to the house of their grandparents in Malvern, Iowa.

Cherry Red Records

Cherry Red grew from the rock promotion company (similarly named after the song "Cherry Red" by The Groundhogs) founded in 1971 to promote rock concerts at the Malvern Winter Gardens.

Dollar Sweets dispute

Dollar Sweets was a confectionery company in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern employing 27 people on a 38-hour week basis.

Henry Bromley, 1st Baron Montfort

Through his mother Montfort inherited the manor of Great Malvern in Malvern, Worcestershire, from his ancestor Sir Thomas Bromley and sold it, in about 1740, to Lord Foley.

Jim Stanton

Stanton composed sound and score for an original production of Shakespeare's The Tempest in 1980 (People's Light and Theatre Company, Malvern, Pennsylvania).

Kathia Rodriguez

Then, she started to work at Charles Rivers Laboratories, located in Malvern, PA. and she combined her biology career with her dream of being an actress.

Malvern, Pennsylvania

Two institutions for higher education include Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies and Immaculata University, both within the Malvern ZIP code.

Malvern, Toronto

On June 15, 2007, the Ontario government had released MoveOntario 2020, a plan that would fund 52 different transit projects throughout Toronto and Hamilton for the cost of $17.5 billion, including the Scarborough RT extension to Sheppard Avenue, which would meet the proposed Sheppard East LRT line, also to be funded by MoveOntario 2020.

The Toronto Zoo, the Rouge River, and the Rouge Valley Park are also located in Malvern, as was Mammoth Hall, a wooden structure that was once a municipal office, meeting hall and curling rink.

Malvern, Victoria

Jesse Spencer – Hollywood Actor, late of Neighbours, now of 'House' fame, attended Malvern Central School in the 1980s.

Rupert Betheras – Former AFL Collingwood footballer, grew up in East Malvern and attended Lloyd Street Central School and De La Salle College.

Siemens Healthcare

Currently, its U.S. division, Siemens Healthcare USA, Inc., is a Delaware corporation, with headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

Tom D. McKeown

Admitted to the bar in 1899, McKeown began practice in Malvern, Arkansas.


Adcote School

The Gardening Club has been very successful in recent years, winning a gold award and the Best in Show trophy at the Malvern Show working with celebrity gardener Chris Beardshaw.

Alamein railway station

The Outer Circle Trail for cyclists and walkers (also called the "Anniversary Trail") continues along the Outer Circle alignment after Alamein station as far as Gardiners Creek and the Malvern Valley Public Golf Course, and then connects with the Gardiners Creek Trail and a path to East Malvern station.

Alfred Richard Creyke

It is located in the Malvern Hills (named after the English Malvern Hills) behind Homebush, with Dalethorpe Road leading into the area.

Artur Ekert

His subsequent work with John Rarity and Paul Tapster, from the Defence Research Agency (DRA) in Malvern, resulted in the proof-of-principle experimental quantum key distribution, introducing parametric down-conversion, phase encoding and quantum interferometry into the repertoire of cryptography.

Automatic Computing Engine

It was installed at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) which soon became the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) at Malvern and ran its first program in late 1952 or early 1953.

Barton Lodge

Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans (1872-1953) purchased Barton Lodge in October of 1927, and renamed it Malvern Hall.

Bruce Small

After the war, Small's Malvern Star bicycles were ridden by Sid Patterson, who won the World Championship Sprint in Copenhagen in 1949, and several other races including amateur World Championship Pursuit in Liege (1950), professional World Championship Pursuit in Paris (1952), and professional World Championship Pursuit in Zurich (1953).

C. Thomas Elliott

A conference centre at DERA Malvern (by 2007 QinetiQ) was named 'The Tom Elliott Centre' in his honour when opened by the Princess Royal in 2007.

Chateau Impney

Chateau Impney has 106 bedrooms, including boutique-styled rooms in the main building, and houses the Impney Restaurant and Bar and the Grand Bar, which features an oak-carved Jacobean staircase that extends upwards throughout the building and views that incorporate the Malvern Hills.

Colwall

The village is served by a single platform railway station on the single track line between Great Malvern and Ledbury railway station at Ledbury, which passes through the Colwall Tunnels, the first of which was dug under the Malvern Hills between 1856 and 1860.

Coral 66

CORAL (Computer On-line Real-time Applications Language) is a programming language originally developed in 1964 at the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE), Malvern, UK, as a subset of JOVIAL.

Glen Iris, Victoria

A number of government and independent schools are located in Glen Iris, including Camberwell South Primary School, Glen Iris Primary School, St Cecilia's Primary School, St Roch's Catholic Primary School, Sacré Cœur School, Korowa Anglican Girls' School and Caulfield Grammar School Malvern campus.

Graeme Strachan

Born in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, he was an avid surfer, and his nickname "Shirley" was given to him by his surfer friends because of his long, sunbleached and very curly hair, referring to Shirley Temple.

Great Valley Corporate Center

Great Valley Corporate Center is a business park community in Malvern and East Whiteland, Pennsylvania, located off U.S. Route 202.

Great Valley School District

Located at 51 Bacton Hill Road, Malvern, this "Bacton Hill Land Purchase" generated some controversy amongst the public for two reasons: (1) the purchase was not discussed with the public prior to the meeting during which it was first announced, voted, and passed, and (2) the purchase price based on two land appraisals was brought under scrutiny when it was discovered that the brother of the real estate agent who set the price was involved with forming both appraisals.

Holly Hall, Dudley

Duncan Edwards, the legendary footballer who died in February 1958 as a result of injuries sustained in the Munich air disaster, was born at 23 Malvern Crescent in Holly Hall on 1 October 1936, although he spent most of his life living at Elm Road on the Priory Estate about two miles away.

KLEZ

KHRK, a radio station (101.5 FM) in Malvern, Arkansas, United States assigned call sign KLEZ from 2003 to 2009

Ledbury Signal Box

This method of operation and equipment, unique to this line, was originally used only through the two single line tunnels on this line, at Ledbury; and under the Malvern Hills between a former signal box at Colwall to the signal box at Malvern Wells.

Little Malvern

Gloucestershire Airport located at Staverton, in the Borough of Tewkesbury near Malvern is a busy General Aviation airport used mainly for private charter and scheduled flights to destinations such as the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Mann, pilot training, and by the aircraft of emergency services.

Malvern East, Victoria

Bruce Clarke - Jazz guitarist, composer and educator, lived in Malvern East.

Malvern House College

Malvern House commences its partnership with major UK universities such as Oxford Brooks University, Middlesex University, University of Leeds.

Malvern Museum

Themes covered include natural history, Malvern Priory, Malvern Forest and Chase, life in Victorian Malvern, Edward Elgar, the Malvern Festival, the history of the local economy including the 19th century hydrotherapy using Malvern water (instrumental in the settlement's rapid growth from a village to a large town), the development of radar by TRE, and Morgan Motor Company cars.

Malvern Wells

It lies on the eastern slopes of the Malvern Hills south of Great Malvern (the town centre of Malvern) and takes its name from the Malvern water issuing from springs on the hills, principally from the Holy Well and the Eye Well.

Noah's Ark Trust

With full-time counsellors and the help of over 60 volunteers who have all completed the Noah's Ark in-house Training Programme, the trust also organises residential weekends at the Malvern Hills Outdoor Centre in West Malvern, which is owned and administered by Worcestershire County Council.

Ouachita High School

The school provides secondary education in grades 7 through 12 for students in Donaldson and Hot Spring County communities including all or portions of Midway, Friendship, Arkadelphia, Malvern, and Bismarck.

Preston, Tyne and Wear

St Hildas CofE Church is to be found on Preston Road, St Marys Catoholic Church is in nearby Marden and a meetinghouse for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is to be found on Malvern Road.

Ruth Fawcett

Ruth Fawcett (born April 13, 1961 in Malvern, England) is the daughter of British-Canadian physicist Eric Fawcett, and the sister-in-law of historian Roger Sarty.

St Kilda East, Victoria

The main schools in St Kilda East are the Christian Brothers College, St Kilda, the Caulfield Campus of Caulfield Grammar School, Malvern Community School, Ripponlea Primary School, the St Kilda East campus of Mount Scopus Memorial College, Yeshivah College, Beth Rivkah Ladies College and part of St Michael's Grammar School.

The Malvern School

In 2010, The Malvern School hosted a school-wide event based on First Lady Barbara Bush’s pro-literacy radio program "Mrs. Bush’s Story Time."

West Malvern

Gloucestershire Airport located at Staverton, in the Borough of Tewkesbury near Malvern is a busy general aviation airport used mainly for private charter and scheduled flights to destinations such as the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man, pilot training, and by the aircraft of emergency services.

Woodside, Dudley

Duncan Edwards, who played for Manchester United and England, and died in the Munich air disaster of 1958, was born in a house on Malvern Crescent on 1 October 1936, but grew up two miles away on the Priory Estate.

Yip Foster

Foster, a graduate of Malvern Collegiate Institute (he played on the football team and later on the Malvern Grads junior team under coach Ted Reeve) also played football for the Toronto Balmy Beach Beachers of the Ontario Rugby Football Union from 1924 to 1930, winning two Grey Cups.